How do some sickos celebrate the new year? By resolving to be even more cretinous, evidently.

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As Twitchy reported, former first lady Barbara Bush has been hospitalized in Houston, Texas. The sane offered prayers and hope for a speedy recovery. The depraved? They crawled out of the gutter sludge to spew vile wishes for her death.

The loafers are lined with fur — kangaroo fur, to be exact.

No one likes to think about a kangaroo dying for a pair of loafers, but that hasn’t stopped celebs from wearing them.

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Dr. Daniel Ramp of the University of Technology Sydney told the Daily Mail that “using kangaroo fur to produce fashion footwear is exploitation, especially since populations are in decline. The killing of these animals is inhumane, there is collateral damage and kangaroo culling has a large social cost on the remaining families and their young. Kangaroos are not objects — they are highly intelligent social animals.”

British model Alexa Chung was spotted wearing them at Milan Fashion Week, as you can see below. Other fans of the footwear include Sienna Miller, Kendall Jenner, and Dakota Johnson.

It’s gonna take a lot more than that, honey. Given the current state of the Wendy Davis campaign — it being in the toilet and all — Cecile just doesn’t have enough cachet on her own. Time to bring in the big guns: